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DEPLOYMENT MAPS & NEWS
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Marine Deployment News from Washington Post
This section consists of deployment news and news of Marines in Kuwait that the author of this web site has found on a 3rd party web site.
Archived News from the Washington Post
This is an excellent page from the Washington Post with references and links to archived copies of Video, Audio, Panoramas, Photo Galleries, Graphics, Maps and Satellite Images from Operation Iraqi Freedom. Excellent resource.
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Washington Post Foreign Service ~ Wednesday, March 10, 2003 Marine Predicts Brief Bombing, Then Land Assault
CAMP COMMANDO, Kuwait, March 16 -- The top Marine commander in the region predicted today that war was "just a few days away" and suggested that it would begin with a three- or four-day bombing campaign intended to wipe out half the Iraqi defenders at the border before U.S. and British land forces are sent in.
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Washington Post Foreign Service ~ Wednesday, March 10, 2003 With Baby Wipes and Spray Paint, Troops Prepare for Desert's Scourge
CAMP DOHA, Kuwait, March 9 -- Every day new signs of impending war appear. Today brings the disclosure that on Monday all forces poised to attack Iraq will switch to Zulu time, an adjustment often imposed before military operations to keep everyone in sync.
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Washington Post Foreign Service ~ Wednesday, March 10, 2003 After Invading Kuwait, Reporters Need Boot Camp
VARIOUS CAMPS IN KUWAIT: (Where the journalists are located.)
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Washington Post Foreign Service ~ Wednesday, March 8, 2003 Marines Test Their Wits With the What-Ifs of War
CAMP BOUGAINVILLE, Kuwait -- A military convoy comes across a school and a hospital. Suddenly shots erupt. "You're taking fire from there, lots of fire," narrated Maj. Mark Stainbrook. "You have to get through. Do you return fire?"
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Washington Post Foreign Service ~ Thursday, March 6, 2003 A High-Tech Pilot Who Keeps His Feet on the Ground
LIVING SUPPORT AREA 7, Kuwait, March 6 -- Michael Deguzman is not a pilot, but he will have a bird's-eye view of the battlefield if U.S. forces are ordered to invade Iraq. That's because the 21-year-old lance corporal is the only Marine in his battalion with an airplane in his backpack.
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Washington Post Foreign Service ~ Wednesday, March 5, 2003 To Gulf Troops, Vietnam Is History
CAMP COYOTE, Kuwait -- An officer addressing a group of Marines in a tent on the wind-swept desert here asked how many had served in the Persian Gulf War. One hand went up. Somalia? No hands. Kosovo? None.
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Washington Post Foreign Service ~ Sunday March 2, 2003 'A War of Bridges'
CAMP RIPPER, Kuwait - A month ago, the bustling town dubbed Camp Ripper did not exist here in northern Kuwait. Now it has hot showers, Internet hookups, plywood-floored tents with electricity, hot meal service twice a day and a camp PX with two-hour lines for cigarettes and junk food -- and 8,000 heavily armed residents.
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Washington Post Foreign Service ~ Thursday, February 27, 2003 Marines and Reporters Get a Scare
CAMP RIPPER, Kuwait, Feb. 26 -- "This is not a drill! This is not a drill!" Within seconds, hundreds of Marines milling about Camp Ripper pulled gas masks on. They started running toward their tents. The lengthy PX queue disappeared. The Marines were convinced they were responding to a chemical attack in the Kuwaiti desert south of Iraq.
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Feb 15, 2003
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CAMP 93, Kuwait -- Sure, she wanted to see the world and serve her country, but Patricia Cabral said she joined the Navy mainly because her father ...
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By Peter Baker
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Feb 12, 2003
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CAMP DOHA, Kuwait -- The siren sounded and a voice came over the loudspeaker just after 2 p.m., a woman's voice, calm and dispassionate. "Exercise. ...
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By Peter Baker
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Feb 7, 2003
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CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait, Feb. 6 -- The main Kuwaiti port bustles with ships disgorging containers. The international airport and nearby air base roar ...
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By Jonathan Finer
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Page A17,
Feb 4, 2003
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LSA-7, Kuwait 3/7 Third Battalion, 7th Marines -- As teenagers, Michael Belcher and Anthony M. Henderson walked the same Washington-area streets and played sports for nearby high ...
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By Jonathan Finer
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Jan 29, 2003
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SOUTH OF THE IRAQI BORDER, Kuwait, Jan. 28 -- At a vast desert supply depot with columns of armored vehicles stretching across the horizon, newly ...
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By Jonathan Finer
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Jan 28, 2003
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SOUTH OF THE IRAQ BORDER, Kuwait, Jan. 28 -- At a vast desert supply depot with columns of armored vehicles stretching across the horizon, newly ...
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By Peter Baker and Susan B. Glasser
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Page A10,
Jan 21, 2003
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CAMP NEW YORK, Kuwait -- If he had been fighting a war here in the desert a few years ago, Maj. Gen. Buford C. Blount III would have been riding ...
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